1. The 148 boutique blends of fuel mandated by state and local authorities was reduced to two -- a winter and a summer blend?
2. If it was not necessary to blend ethanol into the fuel as an oxygenator? It is more expensive than gasoline, more difficult to handle within the distribution system (you can't put it in a pipeline), reduces mpg and doesn't accomplish it's original purpose of cleaner burning. Note that, at the same time, this would make corn and all foodstuffs cheaper, as well.
3. If overdrawn environmental laws didn't keep the industry from drilling in other sites known to contain oil (ANWR, off the coasts) and, at the same time, make it impossible to build new refineries -- so that we have to import finished product?
You're bitching about the price of gasoline? Bitch at the people who made it expensive in the first place. Our legislators and the environmental lobby.
They're the ones to blame.
I wonder how much gas prices will increase as vehicles become more fuel efficient.....
I’m bitching? When someone asks a question is that bitching?
There is intelligent life out there. Thank you for the blast of sanity!